Newsletter Updates for the Week of May 18

Book Fair - Just a reminder that we will go back to the book fair tomorrow to purchase materials. If your child is purchasing materials, please fill out the bottom portion of their wish list and return it to school with cash or check.  Checks should be made out to McBain School & remember to add sales tax:)

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Book Fair—May 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22

(We go back to buy on the 18th)

-Friday, May 22nd—Fun to Be Fit @ 1:00

-Monday, May 25th—Memorial Day—No School
-Thursday, May 28th - Kindergarten Program @ 1:30
-Tuesday, June 2nd - Fieldtrip to Kettunen Center
-Tuesday, June 9th - K-1 Track and Field Day - pm

-Thursday, June 11th—last day of school/half day

FUN TO BE FIT:

Our 5th Annual Fun to Be Fit Day is scheduled for Friday, May 22nd beginning @ 1:10.  This is a family event, so please feel free to join us as we run/walk around the track (strollers are encouraged for small siblings).  Parent/grandparent volunteers are always helpful, as it’s easy for Kindergartners to get lost in the sea of runners:) You are welcome to meet us in the classroom at 12:45 and walk up with us, or meet us up at the track @ 1:10 for a group photo. *Students may bring a water bottle.

KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM: 

We are planning a Kindergarten Program for Thursday, May 28th at 1:30 in the H.S. gym. All of the Kindergarten classes will join together to sing a few of our favorite songs from music class. Family and friends are welcome to attend and refreshments will follow the program.

**Please send in a baseball cap for your child to use as a prop, as we practice for the program:)

ENDING THE YEAR STRONG:

This is the time of year when it becomes harder for students to focus on academics & good behavior.  As we look toward the finish-line, there are still a lot of important skills that we need to master, as well as  assessing that needs to be completed.  Together, we need to continue to impress upon the students the importance of ‘best effort’ and ‘high expectations for both academics and behavior, so that we can finish the year strong! 

READING: 

This week our class will be reading stories about how children can be good citizens. They will learn how to listen, share, help others, respect one      another, work together, and take turns.

· Vocabulary: citizen, respect - Discuss ways your child can show good citizenship and respect for others at school and in the community.

· Sight Words: has, play, all, who—Please continue to practice reading and writing sightwords at home:)

· Category Words: farm animals During the week, your child will read about farm animals. Reinforce farm animal names by singing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.”

· Phonics: long i (i with the magic e) and ch.

 WRITING: 

This week we will be continue to work on our How to Books of things we know how to do and can teach others—outside.  We will be practice some ‘strategies’ to help us figure out ‘tricky words,’ conference with a peer, and practice adding actions lines and arrows to our ‘zoomed-in’ pictures.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

The students were very interested in our study of frogs last week; please take a minute and ask your child to tell you something they learned about frogs. This week we will be learning about the lifecycles of butterflies, as we anxiously await the arrival of our caterpillars. ;)

MATH: 

This week we will continue to practice ordering numbers & building numbers with base 10 blocks.  We will also work on addition and subtraction. On Friday morning, we will take our Spring NWEA assessment for Math.

Please be sure to return your child’s library book

on or before Wednesday!